Matet is one of the 19 municipalities included in the Natural Park of the Sierra de Espadán. Of the 1,485.23 hectares of the municipality, 84.34% (1,208.03) are within the scope of competence of the Park. However, along with these natural values, its long history gives it a rich and varied cultural heritage that has been recognized in different catalogs such as the Torre del Pilón, the archaeological protection spaces, the Hermitage of Santa Bárbara, the Parish Church of San Juan Bautista and the “Nevera de Carro”.

In addition to this heritage, recognized in the different catalogs, there is another abundant and that reflects the relationship that the inhabitants of Matet have had with their environment throughout history. The so-called “minor” or everyday heritage is to a certain extent the unifying element and that structures the landscape and its potential for use as a heritage resource that is constituted by historical roads and paths, the extensive surfaces of terraces and dry stone walls, agricultural buildings (houses and huts), livestock structures (corrals and livestock roads), elements for the use of water (dams, ditches, fountains, ponds) and the witnesses of our civil war (trenches and parapets) that have remained as a silent memory of the conflict in the so-called XYZ line. is to a certain extent the unifying element and that structures the landscape and its potential for use as a heritage resource that is constituted by historical roads and paths, the extensive surfaces of terraces and dry stone walls, agricultural buildings (houses and huts) , livestock structures (corrals and livestock roads), elements for the use of water (dams, ditches, fountains, ponds) and the witnesses of our civil war (trenches and parapets) that have remained as a silent memory of the conflict in the so-called XYZ line.